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I'm just an unlicensed mathematician (the head of the Math department agreed to sign me in to Numerical Analysis if I taught myself calculus... I got six credit
by m3047 2y ago
I'm just an unlicensed mathematician (the head of the Math department agreed to sign me in to Numerical Analysis if I taught myself calculus... I got six credits).
I don't see "2 = 2 + λ - λ" in the article anywhere. The formula without λ (set to infinity, which sets the dependent factors to zero) is Madhava's formula. What is demonstrated is that some values of λ result in more rapid convergence than not having it.
It's about convergence: you never actualize the value of pi without computing an infinite seqence, which you will never do. It is about approximation.
As a more poetic retort, rhetorically I will ask where does h go when you compute a derivative? Why can't you just set it to zero? It's a placeholder for "something", what that something is exactly is of nobody's concern but God.
- Joker_vD 2y ago> where does h go when you compute a derivative? After cancelling it from everywhere we can, we set it to zero. > Why can't you just set it to zero? Before cancelling it as much as we can? Because generally we most of the time would end up with something like 0/0.